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The Impact & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium

Is the Sustainable Finance Working Group of PRME

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Megan Kashner

Kellogg School of Management

Northwestern University

March 2025

Meeta Kothare

University of Texas at Austin

Jaap Bos

Masstricht University

Megan Kashner

Northwestern University

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The consortium is the primary membership society for academics teaching impact investing and sustainable finance

and serves as the Sustainable Finance Working Group of PRME

220+

Universities

450+

Members

40+

Countries

American University of Sharjah

ESPAE

Kathmandu University

Royal Roads University

Universidad Libre

University of Oxford

Arizona State University

Federal Univ of Agriculture Abeokuta

Lagos Business School

Rutgers University

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

University of Queensland

Auckland University of Technology

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Lisbon School of Economics

Saint Joseph's University

Universidad Privada de Ciencias Aplicadas

University of Sao Paulo

Audencia Business School

FGV EAESP

London Business School

Saint Mary's College of California

Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

University of Sheffield

Australian National University

Fordham University

London School of Economics

San Francisco State University

Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

University of Siena, Italy

Bard College MBA in Sustainability

Frankfurt School of Finance

Loyola University Chicago

Santa Clara University

Universidade Federal Fluminense

University of Southampton

Baruch College

Free University Bolzano

Maastricht University

Sapienza University of Rome

Universidade Zumbi dos Palmares

University of Southern California

Bayes Business School

Fu Jen Catholic University

Middlebury College

Singapore Managemet University

University College Dublin

University of St Gallen

Baylor University

Fundacao Getulio Vargas / EAESP

MIT

Skidmore College

University College London

University of Technology Sydney

Belmont University

G. d'Annunzio Univ of Chieti-Pescara

Mount St. Mary's University

Southern Methodist University

University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro

University of Tennessee

Bentley University

George Washington University

Mount University, Baltimore

St Mary's University

University of Amsterdam

University of Texas at Austin

Birkbeck college, University of London

Georgetown University

Munich Business School

St. Bonaventure University

University of Arkansas

University of Toledo

Boston University

Georgia State University,

Nanyang Technological University

Stanford University

University of Auckland

University of Toronto

Cambridge

Glasgow Caledonian New York College

National Central University, Taiwan

Stellenbosch University

University of Bari Aldo Moro

University of Utah

Carleton University

Gordon Institute of Business Science

National University of Singapore

Stockholm School of Economics

University of Bedfordshire

University of Virginia

Castleton University

Graduate Institute Geneva

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Strathmore University

University of Birmingham

University of Washington

Catholic College of Mandeville

Griffith University

NEOMA Business School

Syracuse University

University of British Columbia

University of Waterloo

Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

Harvard University

New School

Tama University

University of California, Berkeley

University of Western Ontario

CBS International Business School

Haverford College

New York University

Tecnologico de Monterrey

University of Cambridge

University of Westminster

CESA

Hebrew University

North Carolina State University

Tilburg University

University of Cape Town

University of Wollongong

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Henley Business School, Johannesburg

Northwestern University

Tufts University

University of Chicago

University of York

City College (City University of New York)

Hitotsubashi University

NOVA University Lisbon

UC Santa Cruz

University of Denver

University of Zambia

Clark Atlanta University

HKUST

Nyenrode Business University

UCLA

University of Edinburgh

University of Zurich

Clemson University

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

O.P. Jindal Global University

UFMS

University of Exeter

University Paris Pantheon-Assas

Coller Business School Tel Aviv University

HSE University

Ontario Tech University

Universitaria Santa Rosa de Cabal

University of Geneva

UNSW Sydney

Columbia University

Ibmec Sao Paulo

Pennsylvania State University

United Arab Emirates University

University of Hong Kong

UT McCombs

Concordia University

IBMEC SP

Politecnico di Milano

Univeristy of St.Gallen

University of Illinois Springfield

UWE Bristol

Cornell University

IE University

Polytechnique Montreal

Universidad Autonoma Madrid

University of Kent

Vancouver Island University

CUNEF Universidad

IESE

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Universidad de Guayaquil

University of Luxembourg

Vanderbilt

Dartmouth

IMD Business School

Pontificia Univ Catolica del Ecuador

Universidad de los Andes

University of Melbourne

Vilnius University

DePaul University

INCAE

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Univ de San Andres, Argentina

University of Montreal

Wake Forest

Drexel University

INSEAD

Queen's University

Universidad del Pacifico

University of New Hampshire

Western Colorado University

Duke University

Insper

Regent's University London

Universidad EAFIT

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Western University

Eafit University

ITESM

Rice University

Universidad EAN

University of North Carolina Greensboro

Wheaton College

EGADE

Javeriana University

Rollins College

Universidad Externado de Colombia

University of Notre Dame

Wingate University

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Johns Hopkins University

Rotterdam School of Management

Universidad Icesi

University of Oregon

Yale University

ESADE

KAIST

Rowan University

Universidad Javeriana

University of Otago

York University

Megan Kashner

Kellogg School of Management

Northwestern University

March 2025

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The Sustainable Finance Working Group of UN PRME

The consortium is the primary membership society for academics teaching impact finance

Megan Kashner

Kellogg School of Management

Northwestern University

June 2024

Preparing leaders with strengths in sustainable finance, who understand our interconnected societal challenges and collaborate across sectors to create solutions that deliver shared value and progress.

Today, leaders and organizations are navigating the risks and opportunities inherent in interconnected human and environmental challenges.

The Opportunity

The Situation

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A Big Tent

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Who Should Join?

Consortium members collaborate and share research, syllabi, cases, and materials for instruction on a closed digital platform.

If you're a university faculty member teaching undergraduate or graduate students impact investing or sustainable finance, consider applying to be a member.

www.impactandsustainablefinance.org

Megan Kashner

Kellogg School of Management

Northwestern University

March 2025

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Annual June Convening in June Focuses on Bringing the Field of Practice and Bleeding-Edge Research into the Classroom�June 22 - 24, 2025

Research Conversations – Practitioner Perspectives – Topical Sessions - Discussion

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Our June Agenda

Megan Kashner

Kellogg School of Management

Northwestern University

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Day 1

  • Plenary: Dialogue on the current moment
  • Plenary: Practitioner perspectives
  • Breakouts:
    • Capitulo LatAm Mtg
    • Project-based class approaches & Teaching exercises
  • Breakouts:
    • Carbon markets, pricing, finance
    • Tenure line researchers mtg
  • Plenary: Investment that flies below geopolitics and recessions
  • Plenary: What is actually changing the behavior of corporations?

 

Day 2

  • Plenary: Dialogue on market failure and a systems-level view
  • Plenary: Applying risk models to the climate world
  • Breakouts:
    • Teaching with cases
    • Impact measurement and management - investor perspective
  • Breakouts:
    • Impact measurement + management - enterprise-level
    • System-level finance
  • Plenary: Blended finance for economic development
  • Plenary: From ideals to markets – the building blocks of market-making